Kazimierz Michał Ujazdowski | |
Nationality: | Polish |
Order: | Senate Chair of the Committee on Emigration and Liaison with Poles Abroad |
Deputy: | Maria Koc (PiS) Janina Sagatowska (PiS) Wojciech Ziemniak (KO) |
Term Start: | 12 November 2019 |
Predecessor: | Janina Sagatowska |
Order1: | Minister of Culture and National Heritage |
Term Start1: | 31 October 2005 |
Term End1: | 16 November 2007 |
President1: | Aleksander Kwaśniewski Lech Kaczyński |
Primeminister1: | Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz Jarosław Kaczyński |
Predecessor1: | Waldemar Dąbrowski |
Successor1: | Bogdan Zdrojewski |
Term Start2: | 16 March 2000 |
Term End2: | 12 July 2001 |
President2: | Aleksander Kwaśniewski |
Primeminister2: | Jerzy Buzek |
Predecessor2: | Andrzej Zakrzewski |
Successor2: | Andrzej Zieliński |
Office3: | Member of the Sejm |
Term Start3: | 20 October 1997 |
Term End3: | 27 May 2014 |
Constituency3: | 3 – Wrocław |
Term Start4: | 25 November 1991 |
Term End4: | 31 May 1993 |
Office5: | Member of the European Parliament |
Term Start5: | 1 July 2014 |
Term End5: | 1 July 2019 |
Office6: | Member of the Senate |
Term Start6: | 12 November 2019 |
Constituency6: | 44-Warsaw |
Predecessor6: | Barbara Borys-Damięcka |
Party: | Law and Justice (2002–2017) |
Birth Date: | 28 July 1964 |
Birth Place: | Kielce, Poland |
Spouse: | Lidia Ujazdowska |
Kazimierz Michał Ujazdowski (born 28 July 1964 in Kielce)[1] is a Polish politician and lawyer, associate professor of law at the University of Lodz. Minister of Culture and National Heritage in the governments of Jerzy Buzek (2000–2001), Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz (2005–2006) and Jarosław Kaczyński (2006–2007), deputy speaker of the Sejm of the fourth term. Member of the Sejm of the 1st (1991–1993) and of the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th term (1997–2014), Member of the European Parliament of the 8th term (2014–2019), senator of the 10th term (from 2019).
Author of press publications, as well as the author, co-author and editor of books devoted mainly to cultural and historical policy, political and constitutional issues as well as the history of Polish conservatism and conservative thought. He has published in Rzeczpospolita, Gazeta Wyborcza, Dziennik, Wprost, Gazeta Polska, Gość Niedzielny, Nowe Państwo and Życie. He was a member of the editorial board of Polityka Polska (1990-1991). Ujazdowski is also the founder and editor of the Kwartalnik Konserwatywny. Kazimierz Ujazdowski is also the founder and director of the Europejskie Centrum Badań Ustrojowych (European Center for Constitutional Research) at University of Łódź. In June 2021, Ujazdowski founded, together with, inter alia, Marek Biernacki, MP, think tank Centrum Dobrego Państwa.
On 13 October 2022, Ujazdowski launched the Centre for Poland as a political party, which will be part of the Polish Coalition.[2]
Kazimierz Michał Ujazdowski is the grandson of Kazimierz Cyprian Ujazdowski, an attorney from the interwar period, a defense attorney in political trials (including the Brest trials). Father - Kazimierz Mieczysław Ujazdowski - was a Member of Parliament, defended in political trials, among others during the martial law period.